in august two thousand and eight layla today of her and her young daughters spent five days in this basement together with another five hundred people. the residents of involved and underground when the town came under attack just discussed first now it seems to me that outside on the street the whole thing is going to start a new models of course it's bad memory but in fact this statement because it helped us to stay alive worth a nice. condo was only nine when the war broke out she was frightened but didn't show her fear in order to not upset her mother the neighbor lauer was constantly by the family's side. is georgian her greatest concern was the georgian soldiers would shoot her first because of the fact that she was living in a settee or. there was no food or water in the basement the underground inhabitants spent several days totally unaware of what was happening above ground and in constant fear for their lives like. the georgians they've looks down the street you know they were shooting from their submachine guns they thought there was an abandoned house here that they were sure the

layla abrar with unicef is our guide. >> the coming groups from these villages, they kind of help each other along the way. but by the time they get to a place like doubli, which is a transition village they are barely alive. >> reporter: this is medina, who told us she walked three months before she reached this place yesterday. did all of your children survive? >> ( translated ): two children died on the way. >> reporter: how old were the children? >> ( translated ): one was eight years old and one was nine years old. >> reporter: where did you have to leave them? >> ( translated ): we left them exactly where they died because we didn't have the strength to carry them and we didn't have the strength to bury them. >> reporter: this woman walked in with her one and a half-year- old granddaughter. unicef showed us how they used this tape to diagnose malnutrition. anything in the red is life threatening. >> she went beyond the green, she went beyond the yellow, and she went far beyond the red and she's there. >> reporter: 9.6 centimeters, ten centimeters or so smaller than she should be.

we are excited to have the incredibly talented and beautifully voiced layla hathaway performing for usby ray chiu. ♪ >> [singing] ♪ ♪ ♪ [singing] ♪ ♪ [vocalizing] [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. >> we can do better than that. let's give it up for her and her daddy. thank you. as we move to a very special moment in this program, before i have the opportunity to present the family, there is a young woman that has made history and so many women -- i know that camilla harris is here. the first african-american woman as the attorney general for the state of california. elisa jackson is someone that i know personally. another person that i want to sit and talk to is dorothy height. she led the environmental protection agency with strength, commitment, and principal. never wavering from what it means to make sure that we are going to leave this earth a better place than we found it. please welcome the first african-american woman to head the environmental protection agency. my sister and friend, lisa jackson. [applause] >> thank you so much, a lexus. -- alexis. she is someone i